Southwest Pokémon Regional Championship - VGC

Sunday, January 20, 2013 at 8:00 AM (PST)

Ticket Information

Junior Division: Players born in 2002 or later:
Your ticket holds your seat until the close of registration - just check in by 9:45 AM and you'll be in the tournament. Please note, successful checkin requires you physically check-in with the TO or Staff and scan your ticket or check your name off the list.

Senior Division: Players born in 1998, 1999, 2000 or 2001:
Your ticket holds your seat until the close of registration - just check in by 9:45 AM and you'll be in the tournament. Please note, successful checkin requires you physically check-in with the TO or Staff and scan your ticket or check your name off the list.

Masters Division: Players born in 1997 or earlier:
Your ticket holds your seat until the close of registration - just check in by 9:45 AM and you'll be in the tournament. Please note, successful checkin requires you physically check-in with the TO or Staff and scan your ticket or check your name off the list.

How to Sign-Up and PlayArrive onsite no later than ½ hour before the tournament start time. Thank you.

A Registration Slip is needed to be entered into the event! We need it ASAP after you arrive at the site!Slips turned in past 9:45 am will NOT make Round 1 of the Championships! Note: if you preregister, you only have to check in at the computer the morning of the event prior to 9:40am; a registration slip is NOT required!

The top 8-64 finishers in each of the three VG age categories receive the following prizes:

1st Place

• Pokémon VG Regional Championships 1st Place Award• Travel Award (including a parent or legal guardian for players under 18) to the 2013 U.S. National Championships at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana.* • 120 Championship Points• First-round bye at the U.S. National Championships**

2ndPlace

• Pokémon VG Regional Championships 2nd Place Award• Travel Stipend of $750 for Junior and Senior Division finalists to the 2013 U.S. National Championships at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana. Stipend must be collected on site at the National Championship. Valid ID will be required to collect stipend. *†• Travel Stipend of $600 for the Master Division finalist to the 2013 U.S. National Championships at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana. Stipend must be collected on site at the National Championship. Valid ID will be required to collect stipend. *†•110 Championship Points (if division attendance is 4 or greater)• First-round bye at the U.S. National Championships**

3rd & 4th Place

• Pokémon VG Regional Championships 3rd or 4th Place Award• Travel Stipend of $700 for Junior and Senior Division finalists to the 2013 U.S. National Championships at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana. Stipend must be collected on site at the National Championship. Valid ID will be required to collect stipend. *†• 90 Championship Points (if division attendance is 8 or greater)

5th - 8thPlace

• 70 Championship Points (if division attendance is 32 or greater)

9th - 12thPlace

• 50 Championship Points (if division attendance is 64 or greater)

13th - 16thPlace

• 40 Championship Points (if division attendance is 64 or greater)

17th - 32ndPlace

• 20 Championship Points (if division attendance is 128 or greater)

33rd - 64thPlace

• 10 Championship Points (if division attendance is 256 or greater)

* Travel awards and byes are awarded to the winning Canadian or United States player and are awarded to the National Championships corresponding to the player’s nationality. A Canadian player is therefore eligible to win a travel award to the Canadian NationalChampionship from an event hosted in the United States, and vice versa.

** Byes do not ‘stack.’ If you have won a bye in another event such as the S/P/T Championship and finish in the top 2 of a Regional Championship, you will receive a maximum first- and second-round bye at your National Championships.

† Travel awards do not “stack”. If you have won a travel award at a previous Regional Championships event, the travel award will pass down to the next eligible player. If there is a stipend awarded to the player who the travel award is passed to, it will instead be awarded to the player the travel award was passed down from. Travel stipends DO stack, meaning that a player may earn multiple travel stipends.

Additionally, all participants will receive 3 Play! Points, and a Pokémon Regional Championships promo card, while supplies last, just for playing!Also, we will have some fun door prizes of other cool Pokémon merchandise.

FoodSmoking Sams will be onsite with their ever popular selection of good tasting and reasonably priced food.

Special Events We have the following super cool & neat special events for participating Regional Championship players:

Paper airplane contest

Create-a-Pokémon-Card contest

Side Events 4-player "Draft-in-a-Box" TCG booster drafts will be offered throughout the day and will consist of single-elimination rounds—$25 entry fee; prizes = 4 boosters for 1st, 2 boosters for 2nd, and 1 booster for 3rd-4th.

4-player TCG constructed tournaments will be available and will consist of single-elimination rounds—$5 entry fee; prizes = 4 boosters for 1st, 2 boosters for 2nd, and 1 booster for 3rd-4th.

Team TCG side events will be offered as interest warrants. Pricing and prizes presented onsite.

Tournament StructureAge-Modified Swiss (1 game matches) in each age divison; there is NO Top Cut—prizes are awarded after Swiss play.